So today I am blogging about what probably every other spouse on this island is blogging about today!! The school is closed today!! The prime minister of Dominica closed EVERYTHING on the island due to the storm surge. Hurricane Omar is like over by San Juan somewhere but somehow were getting a little bit of the effects. We had a HUGE storm this morning. The biggest one weve had since Justin and I have lived here. So since the roads are so horrible here - when it rains this bad it really affects them. Meaning you cant drive on them. Not so much around where we live though. 

So I wake up this morning and think to myself – “I hope the waters not brown – I really need to take a shower”. Because as yall know – our water comes from the river. And if the river is crazy from the rain – our water is brown. So I go to turn on the faucet at the sink and the water is still clear. Im thinking – lucky me!!! So I hop in the shower and the water is MUD pretty much. I get out and Im flipping out. Ellies going crazy cause Im going crazy. I mean – yall – I was UNDER the faucet before I realized the water was muddy. Hair and all.

So I go to plan B. I think to myself “Calm down – you can just go to the school gym and take a shower”. So I pack up all my stuff and as Im headed out the door I check my phone and notice I have a text message from Justin. It says “Im coming home the school is shut down until tomorrow”. Not five seconds later he pulls up to our house and gets out of Kelsies car. I yell out – “I have to go up to school – I just got soaked with mud water”. He says – “Nope the whole campus is shut down!!”. Kelsie is cracking up because she can literally see the dirt on my face – like I had put on selfless tanner.  

So Justin was like – “Liz you’ve got to see how big these waves are”! (Not feeling sorry for me at all that I was literally covered in dirt (hair and all remember?). So we get in the car to go check out the waves. It wasn’t raining at this point thankfully! When we got there Justin said that the waves had already calmed down a little from earlier this morning when he saw them. But they were still huge to me!! It was awesome! Totally made up for my dirty hair. 

Above: A video of what our water looks like right now. This is what I took a 10 second shower in!!

Above: Some of the waves right down by the school.

Above: This one isnt the greatest of the waves but is a good one of Ellie! I screamed because the waves came over the "bank" and splashed me unexpectedly!! There is usually a beach where the water is coming up!

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